Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-10-25
CONDENSED NEWS.

Professor Bells wife has $50, oOo, 900 of Bel
telephone stock.
Edmund Montgom ny, OF Georgia, lived to
be l02 years of age without ever taking
lose of medicine
10 Happy Sing, barber, and All Yung,
laundry man, Cinnamon, took out naturally
alton papers at Clinton Iowa, Moniay.
1t pays to be successful explorer An
offer of $4,000 has been made to Stanley to
write book when he comes home describ ing
his latest travels
W. C. Hanna, wholesale and retail sad
llery hardware, at Peoria, Ills, asst sned
Monday, with liabilities amounting to s2i-
4J4; assets, 81, go
Engineer John Matthias was killed in an
accident on the Wabash road near Missouri
City, No, Sunday. C. N Black, postal
clerk, was serioasiy injured
Judge Isaac c. Parker, of Fit Smith, Ark,
has passed tine death sentence on eig hty -four
persons and tried over 5000 Grim inal cases
during the past twelve years.
In special race for s., 900 side Monday,
at Lexington, Ky, Morrissey's kaIoolah beat
Harpers Valuable by six lengths, the winner
covering the mile and seventy yards in
l:47Is.
The length of silk ribbon annually manu-
featured in Passaic county, New Jersey, is
q, 73l miles. Silk manufacturing in America
directly and indirectly, employs 5000
people.
At Keokuk, Iowa, Monday, the Presby-
terrain synod closed its session. Resolutions
were adopted coniemning the Sunday mail
service, Sunday railway traffic, and Sunday
newspapers.
Saturday night at Maytown, KY, party
of moonshiners attempted to assassnate
United States Deputy Marshal W. T. Day,
who kept the party at bay with double
barreled gun.
The visible supply of wheat and corn, Oct
%, was, respectively, 81 ,3Ss, 0i6 and I, 924,-
36S bushels. Since last report wheat in
creased Isl, S93 bushels, and corn decreased
III. l64 bushels.
Six boilers in the Lawrence Iron works at
Ironton, Ohio, exploded Monday morning,
killing four men and wounding twenty
others The west portion of the mill was
totally wrecked
The duke of Edinburgh has caused much
unpleasant comment at Trieste by an act of
iiscourtesy toward the United States consul,
Mr. Gilbert, whose official visit he omitted to
acknowledge or return.
Mrs. r. C. Reinertson. writer of some
note, with residence at Milwaukee, Wis,
claims to have had her hearing restored by
Christian science methods She had been
deaf for twenty-six years
Charles Tatman, president of the o lessa,
Del. National bank, is dead at the age of 95
He was in active discharge Of his duties up
to the time of his death, and was thought to
be the Oldest bank president in the country.
Recently in London there was an extraor-
binary shaving match against time decided,
Teddy Wick, tae champion barber, being
backed to shave fifty persons in sixty min
utes for Els side He actually shaved
seventy-seven in fifty-nne minutes fifty
three seconds, and thus won the stake
Frank Gernigon, barrier at Cairo, Ills,
tried to kill his wife Monday by shooting
her; and then made several desperate at
tempts TO commit suicida He cut his throat
with razor, stabbed himself with pair of
shears, hacked his head with "a Ratchet and
then jumped INTO cistern He survived all
his exeTtions, and was taken TO the hospital
His wife may recover. Jealousy